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zelda_pinwheel · 10-31-2008, 05:56 PM

ok.

THE Registry.

(and to further clarify my point of view, i agree with you that authors have rights to their works, and also that they deserve to be compensated for them. however copyright law in its current form goes so far beyond those basic tenets that it nearly occults them completely, in the process completely negating the other half of the equation, the public domain, or the shared collective stock of our culture, which is just as important as authors' rights. that is why i think it needs to be reformed, not because i think authors have no rights.)

10-31-2008, 05:56 PM	#47
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	ok. THE Registry. (and to further clarify my point of view, i agree with you that authors have rights to their works, and also that they deserve to be compensated for them. however copyright law in its current form goes so far beyond those basic tenets that it nearly occults them completely, in the process completely negating the other half of the equation, the public domain, or the shared collective stock of our culture, which is just as important as authors' rights. that is why i think it needs to be reformed, not because i think authors have no rights.)